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magicmicah85 wrote: post #58
simonw wrote: post #36

Yeah, they posted this: > Hey, we're Adobe! We're here to connect with the artists, designers, and storytellers who bring ideas to life. What's fueling your creativity right now? > Drop a reply, tag a creator, or share your latest work—we'd love to see what inspires you! That's such a bland, corporate message. It feels totally inauthentic. Do Adobe (a corporation) really "love to see what inspires you" or do they jus…

They want engagement for their new account, it's what anyone who posts on social media wants.

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Post by dlivingston »

philipmnel wrote: post #340
WatchDog wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s so bland I don’t understand why it elicited any response at all.

The general mood on Bluesky is very opposed to AI, especially AI art. Since Adobe now has AI integrated into their products, people on Bluesky hate them.

There is an off-putting sort of attitude on BlueSky ("sneering mockery", I guess?). Same attitude was present on Twitter during the pre-Musk era and seems to have migrated over.

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Post by Riverheart »

rcxdude wrote: post #299
Riverheart wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The collection of the training data is the “scooping up” I mentioned. I assume you acknowledge the training data doesn’t spontaneously burst out of the aether? As for the model, it’s still creating deterministic, derivative works based off its inputs and the only thing that makes it random is the seed so it being a database of vectors is irrelevant.

deterministic is neither here nor there for copyright infringement. a hash of an image is not infringing, and a slightly noisy version of it is.

Nobody is trying to copyright an image hash and determinism matters because it’s why the outputs are derivative rather than inspired.

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Post by dgellow »

genevra wrote: post #88
cosmotic wrote: post #84

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There are a lot of good photoshop alternatives. Most are better at individual use cases than photoshop. For example, nearly all the alternatives are better at designing website comps because they are object-based instead of layer-based.

There are "some" Photoshop wannabes. I still haven't found any program on Linux that can give me anywhere close to the same ease of use and powerful tools that Photoshop has. The example you provided sounds like you want to use Illustrator for your use case anyway.

Have you tried Affinity?

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Post by mamonoleechi »

BeetleB wrote: post #57
jmclnx wrote: post #7

Charging a subscription fee is crazy for a product that is very expensive. I do not know why they are still around.

People don't want to use Gimp, which is the next most powerful photo editing software :-)

Scaling Text in Gimp still rasterize the layer in 2025 :) besides that, Gimp 3 is pretty nice.

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Post by SanjayMehta »

vishnugupta wrote: post #382
55555 wrote: post #363

Adobe runs what must be one of the largest deceptive rebills. The vast majority of users signing up for a monthly plan do not realize that it is actually an "annual plan, billed monthly" and thus that if they cancel after one month (for example) they'll be billed for the remaining 11 immediately. I honestly don't know how they haven't faced FTC action for this, as it's been their primary model for 5-10 years now.

Almost every single one of Adbobe post on HN has a top comment about this evil subscription plan. I fell for it once. But I’m in India so I just cancelled my debit card and that was that. Good luck to them to chase me through legal means in India. It was still bit of a hassle though.

I had to cancel a card thanks to PayPal’s shenanigans.

Now it’s much easier to deal with the subscription problems due to the new RBI norms.

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Post by mesh »

adzm wrote: post #28

Adobe is the one major company trying to be ethical with its AI training data and no one seems to even care. The AI features in Photoshop are the best around in my experience and come in handy constantly for all sorts of touchup work. Anyway I don't really think they deserve a lot of the hate they get, but I do hope this encourages development of viable alternatives to their products. Photoshop is still pretty much p…

For reference, here is Adobe's approach to generative ai:

https://www.adobe.com/fireflyapproach/

(I work for Adobe)

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Post by mamonoleechi »

sureIy wrote: post #356
fxtentacle wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would describe my business relationship with Adobe as: "hostage" They annually harass me with licensing checks and questionnaires because they really hate you if you run Photoshop inside a VM (my daily driver is Linux), although it is explicitly allowed. Luckily, I don't need the Adobe software that often. But they hold a lot of important old company documents hostage in their proprietary file formats. So I can't c…

> proprietary file formats Gimp can't handle them?

If not, Affinity Photo or Photopea will probably do the job.

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magicmicah85 wrote: post #58
simonw wrote: post #36

Yeah, they posted this: > Hey, we're Adobe! We're here to connect with the artists, designers, and storytellers who bring ideas to life. What's fueling your creativity right now? > Drop a reply, tag a creator, or share your latest work—we'd love to see what inspires you! That's such a bland, corporate message. It feels totally inauthentic. Do Adobe (a corporation) really "love to see what inspires you" or do they jus…

They want engagement for their new account, it's what anyone who posts on social media wants.

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